Canadian rider Antoine Duchesne‏ was one of the last cuts from Direct Energie’s Tour de France team. The team decided not to bring sprinter Brian Coquard, which made Duchesne’s role on the team somewhat unnecessary. All that training for nothing is a huge bummer, especially because Duchesne turned his legs into statuesque vein monsters.

Because cyclists basically rely on nothing but their legs to do their jobs, they tend to have some fairly extreme limbs. Here are the best of them.